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Safety Tip - Hydrogen Sulfide Safety
This course offers an overview of hydrogen sulfide, where it's likely to occur, and effective safety precautions
Vivid Learning
Updated Feb 07, 2025
What you'll learn
- Engineering controls, like ventilation systems that remove gas from work spaces.
- Administrative controls: company regulations for operating in spaces where hydrogen sulfide gas is present.
- Personal Protective Equipment
Course Description
Hydrogen sulfide has rotten-egg-smelling odor that’s produced as organic materials decay. It is an extremely hazardous byproduct of industrial processes and it almost always occurs as a colorless gas, causing health problems and even death when inhaled, consumed, or in contact with skin.
Individuals have to be especially careful when working in spaces such as basements, manholes, sewers and manure pits because hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air, allowing it to travel across the ground and fill low-lying spaces.
